Spring4Sims – The Best Finds, Downloads & Hints for Your Sims

I have a confession to make: I love the new expansion pack for The Sims 3. World Adventures is the best vacation expansion so far. At first I was very comparative regarding Bon Voyage for The Sims 2, which I really loved, but I’m starting to think World Adventures is even better.

For the first time in my Sims experience, I truly love the freedom of TS3 neighborhoods since there are no loading screens whatsoever. You can go basically anywhere by foot or by bicycle. I love this! No loading screens! I’m still amazed by this simple fact.

Another thing I truly love is the nature in Shang Simla. It’s really epic, picture-perfect. I took a few snaps so you can take a look (and make sure to enlarge them by clicking on them). Exploring catacombs is amazing and I love that you actually have some quests to do. This gives the player a whole new experience.

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What lovely outfits are these! Sort of retro but stil very hip since showing your underwear seems to be very popular these times. However, if you’re not that brave to show your hoses like that in public, you can leave that to your Sims. I think these outfits are simply perfect for that!

Download link 1 (outfits shown above)
Download link 2 (not shown above)

Fakepeeps has created two new sets for kids and I’m sure you’re just about to love them! I think these overals are totally great for kids who like to wander around the house and the separates (not shown) are pretty useful for this season.

Pipsqueak Overalls
Winter Separates for Girls (not shown above)

The first video is a little odd, but I love the second one. Mummy scenes, yay!

I’d like to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope you’ll enjoy this holiday season playing the game and downloading new goodies, but also have great time with your family and friends!

I’ve got a comment in one of the recent posts. Just to make it sure to everyone, I’m going to make turn it into a more public announcement so everyone can see why. I hope Kylie won’t get offended, but I thought this might save me a lot of explaining in the future.

The original comment is highlited in blue.

1. I was in love with the cc you provided in your Sims 2 site, it was awesome! But, recently I got the Sims 3 and also discovered that now you are doing Sims 3 items as well, and well, I’m find it disappointing.First of all, you don’t show the pictures, we have to click on the links to find out what you’re even talking about, …

Spring4Sims was always meant to be a TS2 site. I planned to expand S4S and start a TS3 finds site, but unfortunatelly, I can’t find any spare time in my life to start the project.

I thought just clicking the links to TS3 downloads I find awesome isn’t nearly as hard as taking time to put all the links together and describe them. I won’t add pictures to TS3 finds because it would only confuse a lot of visitors. People can’t stop asking ‘is this fot TS2 or TS3?’. Frankly, I’m so tired of this question.

So, S4S stays a TS2 finds site. TS3 finds will be compiled to lists of finds when I feel like to doing them. If you don’t feel like taking your time to click the links and see the content, you don’t have to do so.

Also, the system which I publish articles/finds with doesn’t allow me to create two categories with the same name (e.g. I can’t have two categories for ‘Hair for Females’–one for The Sims 2 and one for The Sims 3). So yeah, you get the point.

2. … and a lot of the time, the links aren’t even to the right places.

I can link directly only to sites that allow that. For example, sites like CC4Sims.com have disabled direct linking, so I can’t link directly to categories with clothes or recolors.

3. Either that, or the site you send us to is in a completely different language!

I take no resposibility for what language are other sites with custom content. You can always use Google Translator if you really mind. But I never link to sites in which you can’t relatively easily find a Download link. I think it’s mostly easy to see what the CC is from the pictures.

4. Also, you aren’t showing NEARLY as much designer stuff, what happened to the Gucci bags, Ray-Ban sunglasses & Victoria’s secret clothing? I miss it terribly.

That’s because there is no more designer stuff. If creators made some, I would post it. I love fashion myself and as long as the downloads are high-quality, I’m posting them. But as long as there’s nothing new, I’m not posting anything. I think that’s pretty logical.

5. Also, when I’m browsing through clothes and other items, I can never tell if they are for Sims 2 or Sims 3. It’s very confusing.

Go back to point no. 1. See? That’s why I don’t post The Sims 3 finds with pictures. Everything with pictures is for The Sims 2. This should clear out most of the trouble, but as I can see, for some people, it still doesn’t.

6. I hope you can do something about these problems in the future, and hope that I’m not being a nuisance for ranting on about this. I just miss the spring4sims I used to know!

Honestly, I miss the ‘good old’ S4S, too. But since there are less new downloads, less creators, and less time in my personal life, I can’t seem to help this.

Thanks for reading.

If anyone noticed the same bugs, let me know.

Some sets or objects from the official store disappear from the game after World Adventures is installed (Bayside, Ultra Lounge Set). I tried to install them again but it doesn’t seem to work. It’s a huge miss since I love these sets. And I also bought them from the store (for my free points, of course, but still) so it sucks a lot!

Traits. In-game Sims ‘lose’ their traits, they’re simply not showing up. This also confuses Sims’ Wishes/Wants that are tied to traits–e.g. Sims who like the outdoors won’t ask you to go outdoors very often. However, newborns that you don’t play with get new traits correctly and you can also chose new traits for Sims in the Create-a-Sim. Using enabletestingcheats true cheat and then SHIFT-clicking the Sim to chose his traits works, though. You can simply chose new traits for your Sims this way.

Ceilings don’t appear correctly in some cases. Instead of showing in white color, they’re dark brown (and that can’t be changed with simply chosing white tile to ‘repaint’ the ceiling). Re-builing walls seems to help this. (I didn’t take a picture that would show just the ceiling, but notice the upper corner of the picture–it’s dark brown.)

Not sure if this is a bug, but could be–my Sim has fully explored a catacomb and grabbed all he could find there. Then he was supposed to give it to the woman that assigned him to find a relic there (and he did find it). The problem was I could not find the woman as she was not highlited on the map and after a lot of struggling I fould her, but could not give her the relic she wanted. There was no such option. Has anyone experienced this?

Some textures of furniture were changed after WA was installed. (See the first picture–not only the textures are wrong, but also the Bayside kitchen set was replaced by objects from the original game.)

World Adventures got me thinking about love triangles or actually, the game makes them much more complicated. My new Sim, Jason, has decided to date and soon marry his boss, Jamie, who is a super-cute and clever blondie.

Then he found out he’s totally into martial arts and so he went to Shang Simla. There he fell in love with a nice Chinese girl and who would’ve thought she could get pregant just like that?

The truth is that I didn’t want to leave out the pretty Chinese on her own with a kid, so I went back home and decided to make Jason and Jamie break up. Yeah, I broke her heart, but a heart of a women expecting baby must be crushed, not just broken.

And then the funny thing happened. I invited the Chinese girl to my place and wanted to marry her. But I couldn’t! I spent countless hours of socializing and waited for ‘Get Engaged’ option to show up, but nothing happened. They could try for babies but no serious steps like marriage. Damn it!

I’ve decided to step back. I wanted Jason to marry his ex-wife, Jamie. But guess what? After another countless hours of socializing, I still can’t. It just won’t let me to. I guess Sims have only one shot in their lives, how sad.

Now I’m going to Shang Simla again and I’ll use the cheats (testingcheatsenabled true and then Shift-click a non-household Sim to add him to family) to get my Chinese girl. You have to fight for love, don’t you? Hope this will work out, I really wanted Jason to eventually end up with his love from travles.

Found this in the list of fixes for one of the patches:

Game speed will automatically increase when a Sim is in jail.

In jail? Since when do Sims go to jail? What do I have to do to make my Sims go to jail? I want to try that! Any ideas?

Hey guys, I hope you’re having a swell time this Christmas season and I hope you’ll have wonderful Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

Unfortunatelly, I’ve been feeling pretty overworked past few months and I think it’s time to me to take a few days off from everying, because things have started going over my head. That means no updates for a few days, but remember there are more than 5,000 posts at S4S so take a look at the archives and I’m sure you’ll find something great.

Meanwhile, have great holidays and take care! :love: